ATOP OF SOME OF THE BEST REVIEWS OF HIS CAREER
INCLUDING FOUR STARS FROM MOJO AND UNCUT,
DESERT-FOLK ICONOCLAST HOWE GELB ANNOUNCES TOUR
IN SUPPORT OF JUST RELEASED NEW LP, THE COINCIDENTALIST,
OUT NOW ON NEW WEST RECORDS
ALBUM FEATURES BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY, M. WARD,
KT TUNSTALL, ANDREW BIRD AND SONIC YOUTH'S STEVE SHELLEY
LOS ANGELES, CA, November 13, 2013 - Hailed by Mojo and Uncut with stellar ★★★★ star reviews, with the latter calling it a "thing of strange, understated pleasure," Howe Gelb's new album, The Coincidentalist, released November 5 on New West Records is being declared as his best and most focused in years. Atop of the acclaimed press, the Giant Sand frontman and desert-folk godfather is taking the new material out on the road and will begin the tour in Los Angeles on Wednesday, November 20 and visit San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Toronto, Philadelphia, Boston and New York along the way. The album featuring an all-star cast of musician friends Bonnie "Prince," M. Ward, KT Tunstall, Andrew Bird and Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley, premiered at Wall Street Journal who described it as "an unhurried collection of 11 songs, by turns arid and atmospheric, with offhand touches of rock, folk and torchy jazz." Stream here: http://on.wsj.com/1f47iJx and pick up a download of the jaunty sun-warped"Unforgivable" at Filter who compared the track to "a laidback party in a Western saloon."
Exclaim proclaimed The Coincidentalist "ranks amongst Gelb's most vital albums in an already storied career" while All Music Guide said it is "one of Gelb's most realized efforts; despite its relaxed, airy presentation, it's musically and lyrically provocative, as poetic, strange and mysterious as the desert itself." Blurt called it "seductive and sonorous," adding it is "the kind of album that demands repeated listens." The Sun (UK) remarked: "In the spectrum of genres where Americana, alt-country and desert rock blur at the edges, Gelb is a master...The result is one of his most focused and accomplished efforts."
For The Coincidentalist, the shape shifting, ever evolving Gelb mines from his vast sonic playbook and melds desert-folk, alt-country, indie rock, jazz and experimental into a style he lovingly refers to as "erosion rock." Gelb is the principle vocalist and also plays guitar, piano and chimes and is joined on the album by an ensemble cast of musicians featuring M. Ward on guitar, former Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley and Giant Sand bassist and all around Gelb cohort Thøger Tetens Lund. Scottish singer KT Tunstall (whose most recent album Invisible Empire/Crescent Moonwas produced by Gelb), Bonnie "Prince" Billy, violinist Andrew Bird, and pedal steel guitaristJohn Rauhouse Neko Case's band lend their talents to a variety of songs on the LP.
Called "the scruffy master of alt-country eclecticism" by NPR, Gelb has been making music since 1980 under a variety of names and has a long run of indefinable and influential recordings ranging from punk and roots-rock to psych, jazz, gospel and even traditional Spanish music. Since his early lo-fi envelope-pushing recordings with renowned slide guitarist Rainer Ptacek as Giant Sandworms, Gelb has remained one of the most inventive and unique American musicians of the last three decades and has created a body of work that The Guardian UK hailed as "equal parts dazzling, intriguing, beautiful, maddening, musical and perverse." Aside from a devoted following, he is beloved by his fellow musicians; songwriters like Neko Case, PJ Harvey, Richard Buckner, Vic Chesnutt, John Parish and Scott Niblett have all been on his records, and he has played on a ton of others. His band Giant Sand, which included Joey Burns and John Convertinoin the '90s, spawned the acclaimed Latinesque unit Calexico. And if bestowing the world his own sun warped music wasn't enough, he also discovered M. Ward and Grandaddy; he released the former's debut on his own label and got the latter signed.
HOWE GELB ON TOUR
November 20 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hotel Cafe
November 21 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
November 22 - Salem, OR @ Boon's Treasury
November 23 - Cottage Grove, OR @ Axe and Fiddle
November 24 - Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
November 25 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
November 26 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
December 6 - Chicago, IL @ Old Town School Of Folk Music
December 7 - Toronto, ON @ The Drake Underground
December 9 - New York, NY @ Rockwood Music Hall
December 10 - Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live
December 11 - Allston, MA @ Great Scott
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